Lexicon :: Strong's G4221 - potērion

“Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

“In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand the way you used to when you were his cupbearer.

Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position as cupbearer, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink, and in his arms she would sleep. She was like a daughter to him.

The basin was three inches[fn] thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom. It held eleven thousand gallons.[fn]

The basin was three inches[fn] thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup or a lily blossom. It could hold eleven thousand gallons.[fn]

Drinks were served in an array of gold goblets, each with a different design. Royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty.

Let him rain burning coals[fn] and sulfur on the wicked;

let a scorching wind be the portion in their cup.

LORD, you are my portion[fn]

and my cup of blessing;

you hold my future.

You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows.

For there is a cup in the LORD’s hand,

full of wine blended with spices, and he pours from it.

All the wicked of the earth will drink,

draining it to the dregs.

I will take the cup of salvation

and call on the name of the LORD.

Don’t gaze at wine because it is red,

because it gleams in the cup

and goes down smoothly.

Wake yourself, wake yourself up!

Stand up, Jerusalem,

you who have drunk the cup of his fury

from the LORD’s hand;

you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs —

the cup that causes people to stagger.

This is what your Lord says —

the LORD, even your God,

who defends his people —

“Look, I have removed from your hand

the cup that causes staggering;

that goblet, the cup of my fury.

You will never drink it again.

“Food won’t be provided for the mourner to comfort him because of the dead. A consoling drink won’t be given him for the loss of his father or mother.

This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it.

So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink from it.

“If[fn] they refuse to accept the cup from your hand and drink, you are to say to them, ‘This is what the LORD of Armies says: You must drink!

I set jars filled with wine and some cups before the sons of the house of the Rechabites and said to them, “Drink wine! ”

For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not remain unpunished, for you must drink it too.

Babylon was a gold cup in the LORD’s hand,

making the whole earth drunk.

The nations drank her wine;

therefore, the nations go mad.

What can I say on your behalf?

What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?

What can I liken you to,

so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?

For your ruin is as vast as the sea.

Who can heal you?

So rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom,

you resident of the land of Uz!

Yet the cup will pass to you as well;

you will get drunk and expose yourself.

“You have followed the path of your sister, so I will put her cup in your hand.”

You will be filled with disgrace instead of glory.

You also ​— ​drink,

and expose your uncircumcision![fn]

The cup in the LORD’s right hand

will come around to you,

and utter disgrace will cover your glory.